CVE-2019-1652

Cisco Small Business RV320 and RV325 Dual Gigabit WAN VPN Routers: Small Business Routers Improper Input Validation

As of , CVE-2019-1652 in Cisco Small Business RV320 and RV325 Dual Gigabit WAN VPN Routers is on CISA's list of exploited vulnerabilities: CISA listed it on . Our patch-first group: Patch this week.

Exploited
Yes: CISA listed it on 3 March 2022
US federal deadline
17 March 202214 days after CISA listed it. US federal civilian agencies must fix it by then.
Used in ransomware campaigns
Not known to CISA
EPSS score
0.96Higher than 99% of the CVEs EPSS scores. EPSS estimates the chance of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
EPSS when listed
0.44 on 3 March 2022EPSS on the day CISA listed it.
Public exploit
1 Metasploit module and 2 Exploit-DB entries (2 verified)
Fix
No vendor link in CISA's entry

What CISA says to do

Apply updates per vendor instructions.

CISA's required action

What the flaw is

A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of Cisco Small Business RV320 and RV325 Dual Gigabit WAN VPN Routers could allow an authenticated, remote attacker with administrative privileges on an affected device to execute arbitrary commands.

CISA's description

A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of Cisco Small Business RV320 and RV325 Dual Gigabit WAN VPN Routers could allow an authenticated, remote attacker with administrative privileges on an affected device to execute arbitrary commands. The vulnerability is due to improper validation of user-supplied input. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending malicious HTTP POST requests to the web-based management interface of an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the underlying Linux shell as root. Cisco has released firmware updates that address this vulnerability.

The CVE record's description, from cisco

CVE published
24 January 2019
Assigned by
cisco
CVSS
7.2 High (CVSS 3.0, from the CNA)
CWE-20
Improper Input Validation
CISA SSVC, exploitation
active
CISA SSVC, automatable
no
CISA SSVC, technical impact
total

Timeline

  1. The CVE record was published.
  2. Exploit-DB published an exploit (EDB-ID 46243).
  3. Exploit-DB published an exploit (EDB-ID 46655).
  4. CISA added it to its list of exploited vulnerabilities.
  5. The US federal deadline to fix it.

Public exploits

Facts from Metasploit's module list and Exploit-DB's index; we never copy exploit code.

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